Hey monkeys of all ages, today we bring to you, a review of the New Toshiba Qosmio G30! Qosmio 30 is the Rolls-Royce of laptop packing all of the necessities repackaged into a sleek beautiful design couple with high features! Personally I would love to just have to be able to boast about it, and play the HDDVDs. The laptop on many levels been compared to a stereo component system.

It’s also ridiculously heavy—a throwback to the dawn of portable computing. Tipping the scales at just under 5 kilograms, the G30 can technically be hauled along with you wherever you go, but you might throw your back out if it’s a long trip. Compared to the slender 2.5 kg notebook that’s normally in my bag, I found the G30 to be monstrously heavy. Realistically, it’s a desktop PC that can be packed up and moved quickly in a pinch.

Perhaps the reason it weighs so much is that it’s composed of some of the most advanced portable computer technology in the world, including a gorgeous 17-inch TFT TruBrite widescreen LCD with a 1,900 x 1,200 native resolution, Intel Core Duo processors running at 2.0GHz, a pair of 100GB hard drives, memory expansion modules built to accommodate up to 4GB of RAM (though it only ships with 1GB), and a built-in HD-DVD drive—the first of its kind in a notebook PC, and the primary reason why I requested to borrow a demo model in the first place I was very pleased with the quality of the image but the video was extremely choppy! I doubt it has anything to do with the graphics system maybe something to do with the system configuration and other concurrent processes!

 

The good:

• HD DVD drive
• Digital TV tuner
• Large, high resolution screen
• Great raw performance
• Impressive selection of connectivity options

 

The bad:

• HD DVD drive is an unjustifiably expensive addition
• Bulky, even for a desktop replacement
• Poor battery life

 

The bottomline:

Although the benefit of HD DVD is questionable, the Toshiba Qosmio G30 is still the most feature-rich home entertainment notebook we’ve seen to date. I would let this laptop sleep with my miss kong

-Kk

 

Battery

* Battery type included
* Lithium-ion

* Claimed battery life
* 2 hours

Connectivity

* Network interface
* 10/100/1000 LAN, Bluetooth, 802.11b, 802.11g

* Dialup modem
* Yes

* USB ports
* 4

* Firewire ports
* 1

* S-Video
* Yes

* VGA
* Yes

* HDMI
* No

Display

* LCD technology
* XGA

* Natural resolution (max)
* 1920 x 1080 pixels

* Diagonal screen size
* 17.1 inch

Drives

* Primary hard drive
* 200 GB

* Optical drive
* HD-DVD

General

* Dimensions (H x W x D)
* 406 x 295 x 44.7 mm

* Weight
* 4.5 kg

Graphics

* Amt of video RAM
* 256 MB

* Graphics hardware
* GeForce Go 7600

Memory

* Amt of RAM
* 1GB

* RAM type
* DDR2-533

* Memory card reader
* Yes

More Information

* Other
* MCE remote controller

Processor

* Processor type
* Intel Core Duo

* Processor speed
* 2.16 GHz

Software

* Operating system
* Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

Sound

* Embedded stereo speakers
* Yes

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